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Im sure you Biden hating pessimistic losers would love to shit on this one.
I'll believe it when I see it is all I will say. Anyone can promise nationwide high speed rail for the US, and many have in the past, yet here we are. Genuine praise will be warranted when it's actually completed and carrying passengers.
Believe it or not, the money isn't the hard part. The endless environmental studies, NIMBYism, and debate make it nearly impossible to build projects of any size in the US anymore.
The only president that I can remember that has promised high speed rail was Obama... and he spent 2 billion dollars just in the planning portion. I would imagine Biden saying 66 billion would actually do something with the blueprints already made... it seems like a done deal i dont know why you would complain about that.
Where in my comment did I complain about it? I completely support projects like this but simply have my doubts that it will actually go as advertised. Genuinely confused because all I said is I intend to suspend my praise and celebration until it's actually delivered, like we should with all promises by any politician. Is that considered complaining now?
Sorry i didnt mean that you specifically are complaining about waiting to see. I meant people complaining about not seeing progress even though I dont remember seeing any talks about having this done in the past other than Obama.
CAHSR at least is already under construction and has made significant, material progress in the last few years. Brightline West I'm less confident in, but CAHSR is definitely happening.
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Imagine being so perpetually upset that when Genocide Brandon does something good, your reflex to is say this
Imagine being so immature you can’t mention someone without calling them a petty name, even when they do something good.
This is not something he's done. It's something he says he will do. Reminds me of the time he forgave our student loans.
I was sarcastically quoting that comment, but I think using a red herring severely weakens their statement and is quite childish.
Since you didn't read the article, this is literally something he has done using funds provided by legislation he pushed and passed via Congress.
Fair assessment. It generally seems to be a way of conditioning the argument to prevent further or critical discourse. Honestly with how deprived folks in the US are (as I am in my country), I think it is a bit condescending to rain on their parade. What else would they look forward to? The widening gap in wealth inequality? The increase in infant mortality? The support of genocidal regimes? Working on the positives and what people want might be a better strategy. I will say I do appreciate your comment even if others don't think it's insightful, it made me pause and think a bit.
That said, I am glad this is implemented, and I don't have evidence (read: haven't seen anything or bothered to look too much into it) this project will fair worse than others which appeared to be 'too good to be true', baring such evidence and with the general sentiment that this makes total sense, I want to say it's fair that it would be done even if it is being done decades late.
He's still committing genocide.
If you like railway and genocide you'd like the CCP as well. Xi for Pres baby.
Bro, name a president without blood on their hands.
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Can't because you keep voting for genocidal maniacs instead of voting third party.
Voting for a better third party in our current system unfortunately just makes it more likely that the worse of the two genocidal maniacs becomes the president instead.
Trump started his run at a 1% polling rate and became president.
The only reason a third party keeps winning is because Democrat voters are so stuck in their old boomer ways that they can't fathom the possibility of changing anything.
The Democrats are the real conservatives.
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Trump became president by winning over enough Republican primary voters and then exploiting the electoral college's inbuilt favoring of conservatives.
For someone better to get in, they have to go through one of the major parties, and that means winning a primary. As such, by voting in a primary, there is the chance to actually stop a genocidal maniac from being put on the ticket in the first place. In our current system, that is unfortunately our best option. Voting third party in the general election in a first-past-the-post system that filters the popular vote through the electoral college is about as close as you can get to throwing your vote away without putting it in a literal trash can.
For the record, while this is the system that we live with and have to work within as long as we have it, this system is also total shit and we should absolutely abolish the electoral college and adopt a more parliamentary system like stronger democracies have elsewhere in the world.